Memorandum device.



F. L. VERNON.

MEMORANDUM DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. ms.

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FREDERICK L. VERNON, OF NEWTON, IOWA.

MEMORANDUM DEVICE.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

Application filed November 8, 1913. Serial No. 799,905.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK LVERNON, acitizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Newton,Jasper county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Memorandum Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in memorandum devices, andespecially to that type of devices adapted to be mounted upon atelephone standard or some supporting body adjacent thereto, and whichhave memorandum strips mounted upon resiliently-actuated rollers, to beunwound therefrom when desired, and myimprovements specifically consistin, first, the provision on .a resiliently-actuated roller of theplurality of hooks for detachably attaching the curtain or flexiblestrip thereto; second, the use in the supporting means for the roller ofelastic brackets therefor, adapted to permit of the easy insertion orremoval of the roller; third, an improved form of mounting for theroller which will permit of use of both sides of the flexible strip, andthe supporting of said roller conveniently and detachably upon somefixed mounting; and fourth, the construction of the roller in a suitableway to permit of the mounting and properly securing of its actuatingspring therein. These objects I have accomplished by the means which arehereinafter fully described and claimed, and which are illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an upper plan view of my improved memorandum device asdetachably secured to a standard or support, such support being shown incross section. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal horizontal section of saiddevice, with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectionof the said device. Fig. 1 is a detail view of the roller of saiddevice, with portion of a flexible strip detachably secured thereon bymeans of my improved securing-means.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views. 7

My device comprises a back plate 1, having integral bent-over ends 2parallel, extending to one side, and orifice in alinement to receivedetachably the ends of a shaft 4. Upon said shaft between the ends orbrackets 2, and nearer one of the said brackets than the other, isfixedly mounted a solid cylinder 6 of wood or other suitable material,and a hollow cylindrical tube 3 is mounted upon said cylinder 6 in sucha manner that the cylinder 6 stopsup the left-hand end thereof for aportion'of its length. It is obvious that the hollow tube 3 might besupported upon said shaft by other supporting means than the, solidcylinder 6, if desired. A helicoidal spring 7 is mounted about the shaft4 within the tube 3, and has its left-hand end secured to the cylinder6, while its other end extends out of the right-hand end of the tube 3,and is engaged with one side of a lip 5 punched out of the right-handbracket 2 in such a way that when the tube 3 is rotated to place thespring under tension, the spring, when the tube is released, will, inreacting, rotate said tube in the opposite direction. This back plate 1may be mounted upon any desired supportingmeans, such as a wall or otherfixed body, or may be provided with a detachable connecting means, suchas I have shown most clearly in Fig. 1. This consists in a strip ofmetal, whose .metal part is secured to the back of the plate 1 by. meansof a rivet 8, and which is then bent away from the plate 1 at rightangles at 9, and then has its end members curved around at 10, andprovided with outwardlydirected terminals 16, the latter slotted in lineat 17, to permit of the said terminals being adjustably secured by meansof a bolt and thumb-nut 12 to fasten the curved parts 10 adjustablyabout some support 13, which may be a desk telephone standard or thelike. The rivet 8 is of the tight-andloose variety, to permit of theplate 1 being turned about on said rivet as a pivot, so that either sidemaybe brought upwardly.

The cylinder 3 is preferably made of a single plate of metal bent intotubular form, with its longitudinal edges somewhat spaced apart, andwith one of the edges, 18, bent inwardly to stiffen it. Integral hooks19 are punched out from the other longitudinal edge of said tube inalinement therealong, and serve to detachably secure one of the ends ofa flexible strip of paper or other material 1 1 upon'said tube, to bewound thereon. The hooks 19 are passed through slots in the curtain orstrip 1 1, and pressed down to hold the strip in place. The other end ofthe strip, as shown in Fig. 3, has a double strip of cloth or othersuitable material, 15, secured therealong, and having a space adapted toreceive a cross-bar 20.

- theother side of Said cross-bar 20 serves to keep the strips permit ofthe ends of the shaft 4 being insorted into or withdrawn from the alinedbearing-holes therein. 7

- The memorandum strip 14 may have any desired ruling printed thereon,so as to serve as a telephone directory or otherwise. The spring 7 is sowound up that it ordinarily keeps the strip wound upon the roller ortube 3, but the strip 15 can be used as'a finger piece, whereby thestrip may be unwound, thereby putting the spring under tension. When thestrip is released, the reaction of the spring will wind up thestripupon'the roller. The plate 1 may be turned about on its pivot 8 topermit of the use of the strip 14. i The cross-bar 20 is made ofsufficient "thickness so that when the strip 14 is released, afterhaving been unwound, the bar and. its covering 15 are too thick-to passthrough the interspace between the roller 3 and the back plate 1,thereby acting as a stop.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to-secureby Letters Patent, is: j

1. A device for the purpose set forth comprising a support having spacedprojections extending to one side thereof, an open-ended rollerrotatably mounted in and between said projections, a "lip struck fromone of said projections and extending into the ad- 1 jacent end of theroller, a spring coiled and'having one end conwithin the roller nectedtherewith and its other end engaging said lip, and a strip of flexiblematerial mounted about said roller to be unwound therefrom while placingsaid spring under tension.

2. A device for the purpose set forth C0111- prising a supportingbracket, a hollow roller, a shaft rotatably mounted in said supportingbracket and extending through the roller, a body fixed on said shaft,one end of said roller being mounted fixedly on and closed by said body,a lip struck from the bracket adjacent the opposite end of the rollerand projecting into said end of the roller, a spring coiled about saidshaft within said roller and having one end secured to said body and itsopposite end secured to said lip, and a strip of flexible materialsecured to and roller by reaction of said spring.

3. A device for the purpose set forth comprising a support havingintegral apertured projections, a shaft having its ends journaled in theapertures in said projections, a hollow roller arranged about saidshaft, a

lip struck from one of the projections and extending into the oppositeend of the roller, a spring coiled about said shaft within the rollerand having one end secured to said lip and its opposite end secured tothe closure for the roller, and a flexible strip having one end attachedto the roller and adapted to be unwound from the roller to place thespring under tension.

Signed'at Newton, Iowa, this 6th day of November, 1913.

FREDERICK L. VERNON.

Witnesses BERTHA SARvnR, ALMA SLAGEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

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